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It seems like the only time people listen to me is when they want to insult me! In conversations I ALWAYS get interrupted, even by my own parents and friends. And what they say is usually never related to what I'm saying; they just decide that I don't matter and decide to try and talk over me! It's not like I ramble either. I usually only get out half a sentence (I've started keeping track after it's happened so much) before someone decides its necessary to interrupt me.

But it's even worse when they listen, because all they do is poke little holes in everything I say! If I'm saying something normally it doesn't matter and they interrupt it, but if I mispronounce a word or get a date wrong suddenly they're listening just in time to tell me how wrong I am and then forget about me. My brother still makes fun of the fact that I used to say the TH sound as the S sound, despite the fact that I went to a speech therapist person thingy and got over it YEARS AGO. I don't even do it anymore, he just suddenly brings it up, "Hey, remember how you used to not be able to make the th sound? That was soooooooo freaking funny! Let's laugh at you again!"

I've tried talking to people about this. My family stopped interrupting me for a day, and then everything went back to normal the next day. They don't care about my opinion at all. But what makes it worse is that they care about my brother's opinion and looove him so much, despite the fact that I get better grades and make my own meals and feed all the pets and babysit my sister for free while he just lazes around on computer all day.

Ugh, I'm just getting really fucking pent up about my family. I still love them though and they haven't done anything really bad, I just wish they would treat me better.

My family treats me the same way. I'm usually always in the wrong, and my mom takes every opportunity to interrupt me or to start talking while I'm talking. She has absolutely no desire to hear what I have to say despite how many times she's said "You can always talk to me". To be honest, hypocrasy nowadays is almost unbearably obvious and its laughable.

Just try your best to get through. When you go to college, you won't have to deal with them as often, if at all. I plan on moving way up north for college. I never want to see or be a part of my family again.